Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries

by Archer Butler Hulbert

[55] Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. iv, p. 183; xii, p. 400; vii, p. 371.

[56] An itinerary of the route from New Orleans northward is given in The Navigator (1817), p. 306. For a description of the journey see American Pioneer, March, 1842.

[57] American Pioneer, vol. ii, pp. 163-164.

[58] Harris: Tour, pp. 30-31; cf. p. 139 where the author states the historical succession of river craft as: canoe, pirogue, keel-boat, barge, and ark.

[59] Interview with William DeForest published in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, May, 1883.

[60] Dr. S. P. Hildreth’s Pioneer History, p. 205.

[61] Collins’s History of Kentucky, vol. ii, pp. 113-114.

[62] Burner’s Notes, p. 400.

[63] Cassedy’s History of Louisville, p. 64.

[64] Butler’s Journal for October 9, 1785, The Olden Time, vol. ii, p. 442. Cf. Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. xi, p. 13, note.